Christina Truwit
I am an architect, an artist, and an academic, currently based in Providence, RI. I study the intersection of sustainability, social justice, policy, and uncovering hidden narratives.
Christina Truwit is an architect, artist, and academic currently based in Providence, RI. She received her Masters of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, after attending Allegheny College for her degree in Mathematics and Studio Art. Today, she teaches architecture at Rhode Island School of Design. Before teaching, she worked as a teaching fellow for the RISD architecture thesis discourse, a sustainable home designer for Prendas Loria, a firm located in Nosara, Costa Rica, and alongside designers at the University of Minnesota, and Envision Community, developing a community led homeless housing program for Minneapolis, MN.
Her work focuses on the intersection of sustainability, social justice, policy, and uncovering hidden narratives, and she has showcased at the RISD Museum, and Waterfire Arts Center. She received the graduate thesis award for her project that visualized property policies interaction with homes threatened with sea level rise effects. She also founded Project Archive, a research collective that decentralizes the research process, and expands the western canon. The collective's book will be published in spring of 2023 through ORO publications. She has spoken about her work at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Conference in 2021, and the Association of Architecture School of Librarians National Conference in 2022.
Education
2018-2021
Rhode Island School of Design
2013-2017
Allegheny college
2009-2013
Wayzata High School
Awards & Grants
2023
Isham Fund, RISD Architecture Department
2022
SEI Research Fund
2022
Isham Fund, RISD Architecture Department
2021
SPUR Fund, RISD Research
2021
Graduate Thesis Award, RISD
2021
Graduation Honor: Project Archive, RISD Architecture Department
2021
Symposium Grant, Center for Social Equity and Inclusion, RISD
2021
Symposium Grant, Dean of Design, RISD
2020 & 2021
Choi Fund, RISD Architecture Department
Conferences
2022
Speaker, Association of Architecture School Librarians
2021
Speaker, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
2021
Organizer, Founder, Symposium: Towards a Practice of Refusal
Exhibitions
2021
New Contemporaries , RISD Museum
2021
RISD Graduate Show, Waterfire Arts Center
2021
Project Archive Website Launch, Bayard Ewing Building, RISD